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Sycophant JD Vance took the stage in New York and managed to cram "anti-Semitic," "anti-Christian," and "anti-white" into one sentence, like a man speed-running the Republican grievance menu."They've become anti-Semitic in the Democratic Party," Vance said. "They've become anti-Christian in the Democratic Party. - Read the rest The post JD Vance turns dog whistles into a brass section appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains' Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm may be ugly, expensive, and very funny, but Swimming Pool Steve says it is not especially mysterious.After two CNN appearances about the green water situation, Swimming Pool Steve posted a longer explanation of what he thinks happens next. - Read the rest The post Pool expert explains Grandpa Pudding Brains' Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:ChatOn Premium is $99.99 for 5 years, giving you access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Sonar, real-time web search with sources, image generation, cross-platform sync, and a dedicated mobile app for less than $2 per month.The AI arms race has created a weird new problem:everybody wants access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, and all the other popular models. - Read the rest The post The math is wild: ChatGPT Plus is $240/year-5 years of ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini is just $99.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:GetMicrosoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 plus 15 lifetime coding coursesfor $44.97 (reg. $1,999.99) through Deal Days - our answer to Prime Day.Professional developers pay $499.99 for Visual Studio Pro alone. Right now, duringDeal Days, you can grab Microsoft's newest IDE plus a full coding education bundle for $44.97 until June 28 at 11:59 PM. - Read the rest The post This $45 Deal Days bundle gets you Visual Studio Pro 2026 plus free coding courses appeared first on Boing Boing.

A ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet in Izmir, Turkey, was nearing its tragic conclusion when an uninvited cast member wandered onstage and quietly took over the production. This mischievous cat appeared during the final scene and began acting like it had been rehearsing with the company for weeks. - Read the rest The post Cat crashes Romeo and Juliet ballet in Turkey, bites Romeo mid-death scene, steals entire show appeared first on Boing Boing.

The massive consulting firm KPMG had to pull a lengthy report on the use of Agentic AI after it was found to be riddled with AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. AI detection company GPTZero analyzed the report, Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI, which was released in October, 2025. - Read the rest The post Report on AI use in business rife with AI hallucinations appeared first on Boing Boing.

I really, really loved Dragon's Dogma 2. Yes, even after its meme-filled moment in the sun was over. Yes, even in spite of the wholly unnecessary microtransactions that marred its reputation at release. (Incidentally, literally every Capcom game has those. - Read the rest The post One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free appeared first on Boing Boing.

Back when Shrek 5 was officially confirmed as a project that was, indeed, happening, I thought it was overdue. Now that an actual trailer has dropped, though, I think I'm officially upgrading that to "too late." Maybe my expectations were too high after spinoff Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which was a genuine masterpiece of a family movie. - Read the rest The post Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie appeared first on Boing Boing.

In the department of Yoro, Honduras, fish turn up on the ground after large storms. The lluvia de peces - literally "rain of fish" - has been reported for over a hundred years and is said by residents to happen every year during the mid-year rainy season. - Read the rest The post In a Honduran town, fish appear on the ground after every major rainstorm appeared first on Boing Boing.

A toast sandwich is exactly what it sounds like: a thin slice of toasted bread, placed between two slices of untoasted bread. Season with salt and pepper. The recipe appears in Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management, in the section for invalid cookery. - Read the rest The post The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:A1-year Rosetta Stone subscription is$127.20(reg. $159) through June 28 as part of Deal Days - new users only.Google Translate will get you through a crisis.Rosetta Stonewill get you through a dinner party, a day trip, and the kind of off-menu conversation that actually makes a trip memorable. - Read the rest The post Stop relying on Google Translate - Rosseta Stone can help you learn for real appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie TV Room-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US INTHE INNERHIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic - before it's published anywhere. - Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: The Dementia Donnie Center for TV Watching appeared first on Boing Boing.

Apple added a feature called Vehicle Motion Cues in 2024 that places small dots around the edge of your screen. The dots move in sync with your car - sweeping left when you turn right, sliding forward when you brake. Your inner ear detects motion while your eyes see a static screen, and the mismatch causes nausea. - Read the rest The post The obscure iPhone setting that eliminates car sickness appeared first on Boing Boing.

When a former prosecutor got a new case, the first thing he asked was whether the suspect talked. "Nothing lights up a prosecutor's face when he is faced with a difficult case and finds out the suspect talked," writes the Campola Law Firm. - Read the rest The post Former prosecutor says talking to police always hurts you appeared first on Boing Boing.

The UNSW team that used ultrasound to speed up cold brew to three minutes has pushed the technique further - producing espresso-strength shots with room-temperature water. A transducer pressed against a coffee filter basket generates sound waves that create acoustic cavitation, collapsing microscopic bubbles that fracture the grounds and pull out flavor compounds far faster than cold water alone. - Read the rest The post Cold-water espresso cuts energy use 75% and tastes identical appeared first on Boing Boing.

Grandpa Pudding Brains wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted "American flag blue," and nature responded with algae bloom green.The newly refurbished Reflecting Pool was supposed to transform Washington's look. Success: the giant painted blue basin turned green, and crews are now reportedly fighting the bloom with hydrogen peroxide, vacuums, skimmers, and ozone nanobubbles. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains pours peroxide into the Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:One payment, no renewals, no subscription drama - thislifetime Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 licenseis just $19.97 (reg. $229) through June 28.There is a reality whereWord, Excel, and PowerPointare fully unlocked and live permanently on your PC for less than twenty bucks. - Read the rest The post Microsoft Office is somehow only $20 during Deal Days appeared first on Boing Boing.

Connect to an open WiFi network, and a captive portal opens a shelf of banned ebooks. The access point is a smart light bulb. Rick Osgood reflashed the ESP32 chip inside with custom firmware, rewrote the partition table to carve out 2MB of the 4MB flash for storage, and built a web server that runs entirely off the bulb's power. - Read the rest The post Screw this light bulb in and it serves banned books appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it Stropharia cubensis - later reclassified as Psilocybe cubensis - and never mentioned it again in any of his letters. - Read the rest The post The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn't use it appeared first on Boing Boing.

In January 2020, a Finnish Reddit user posted a photo of curtains printed with eight celebrity faces and asked for help identifying them. Seven were quickly matched - Josh Holloway, Jessica Alba, Orlando Bloom, and others prominent in the mid-2000s. The sixth face, dubbed Celebrity Number Six, resisted identification for four years. - Read the rest The post It took Reddit four years to identify the sixth face on a set of curtains appeared first on Boing Boing.

On Sunday, July 13, 1980, around 500 children from 11 marching bands gathered at the Hollinwell Showground near Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, for a Junior Brass and Marching Band competition. At about 10:30 am, band members began to collapse. Children began "[falling] down like nine pins," according to one witness. - Read the rest The post In 1980, 300 children collapsed at a marching band competition and no one knows why appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Turnspit Dog was a short-legged, long-bodied breed kept in English kitchens to run inside a wooden wheel connected to a roasting spit. First mentioned in 1576 as "Turnespete," the breed was also known by several names: Kitchen Dog, Cooking Dog, or Wheeling Dog. - Read the rest The post The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct appeared first on Boing Boing.

Theodore Hook is a historical figure whose eccentricity defined his period. He became known for the Berners Street Hoax of 1810-an undertaking considered arguably the greatest practical joke in history. Hook arranged for dozens of tradesmen, including the Lord Mayor and the Duke of Gloucester, to converge on a single London address for a wager. - Read the rest The post In 1810, a prankster sent 4,000 letters to flood one London address with chimney sweeps, coffins, and the Lord Mayor appeared first on Boing Boing.

Not every phone is meant to connect two living people. At San Francisco's Sunset Dunes, a bright blue phone booth gives visitors a chance to speak the words they never got to say to someone they've lost. You can watch someone using the phone here in this sweet video. - Read the rest The post San Francisco's wind phone lets visitors talk to lost loved ones appeared first on Boing Boing.

A video of this weird-looking phenomenon shows a person standing at the razor-thin boundary between clear skies and a rain shower. A distinct curtain of rain advances across the street while the ground around her remains completely dry. As it moves closer and closer, it looks like two worlds colliding. - Read the rest The post Video shows a rain curtain splitting a street into two worlds appeared first on Boing Boing.

Raw Story, citing the Daily Mail, says Maxwell has formed a "highly secretive" group at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where she allegedly whispers with three women she considers among the "finest and best educated" prisoners. The reported crew has a certain country-club-crime theme: a doctor convicted in a bogus billing case, a former CFO accused of raiding company funds, and a bookkeeper who wrote herself very generous checks. - Read the rest The post Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly finds her mean-girls table in prison appeared first on Boing Boing.

You have to promise to pretend to be a little surprised when I tell you that Grand Theft Auto 4's Liberty City was based on real-life New York. I'm not asking for a full send, just gasp a little or something. - Read the rest The post Exploring Grand Theft Auto 4's hidden history appeared first on Boing Boing.

It's a funny world when Breaking Bad's comic relief lawyer Saul Goodman has more integrity than the sitting President. I did not tune into Trump's UFC fight, but you better believe I sat up when Better Call Saul co-creator and showrunner Peter Gould posted a celebration of his own. - Read the rest The post Saul Goodman returns to celebrate America's 250th appeared first on Boing Boing.

Pemba, a modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot, is on an expedition slated to culminate with a summit of Mount Everest. Unitree's robots can pull off impressive kung fu and parkour, but all bipedal robots struggle on uneven terrain. (And sometimes even on level ground.) - Read the rest The post Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest? appeared first on Boing Boing.

Sixty-three arrests. Four stabbings. One shooting. When New York City gets out to celebrate, they celebrate. The city's reaction to their hometown heroes winning the NBA championships has become the stuff of legends in mere days, and not for no reason. - Read the rest The post Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Snag a refurbished 11.6-inchLenovo 300e 2-in-1 Chromebookfor $79.99 (reg. $284.99)Nobody's asking the family Chromebook to render 4K video or run Call of Duty. You want something that boots fast, juggles a dozen browser tabs without sweating, and doesn't spark a panic attack when it gets knocked off the kitchen counter. - Read the rest The post This $79.99 refurbished Chromebook is tougher than the laptop on your desk appeared first on Boing Boing.

CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally. Crank, speak, and get a spoken answer back. - Read the rest The post CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation over claims they used artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence. The BBC's Samantha Noble reports that it's thought to be the first case of its kind in Britain.

When President Trump first showed reporters a model of the proposed United States Triumphal Arch, CBS News's Ed O'Keefe asked who it was for. "Me," said Trump. "It's going to be beautiful."The arch, formally in honor of the United States' 250th anniversary, would rise 250 feet-one foot per year of independence-on Memorial Circle on Columbia Island, between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. - Read the rest The post Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden appeared first on Boing Boing.

The sprawling Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh is most famous as the setting for George A. Romero's 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead: the shambling zombies return out of instict, says one character, becuase the place "was important in their lives." - Read the rest The post Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Black woman yelled, "Oh my god," because the Knicks won, someone called the LAPD, and police reportedly responded by bursting into her apartment and killing her golden doodle.According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Threads post, the dog was wearing a Knicks jersey and ran over when police entered the apartment. - Read the rest The post Woman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog appeared first on Boing Boing.

A bear rescue in Rancho Sahuarita, Arizona, turned into a live-action cartoon when a tranquilized bear dropped from a tree, hit the tarp, and one of the humans went down with it.They meant well.The bear was tranquilized. What's the LEO's excuse? - Read the rest The post Keystone Kops get a physics lesson from falling bear appeared first on Boing Boing.

Elon Musk hates taxes, government, regulation, and the public sector right up until the check clears.CNN's Chris Isidore lays out the part of the Musk myth that gets buried under all the rocket smoke and Cybertruck cosplay: SpaceX needed early NASA grants and a crucial $1.6 billion contract, while Tesla leaned on a $465 million federal loan, EV tax credits, and billions from emissions-credit rules that forced other automakers to buy their way into compliance. - Read the rest The post Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts appeared first on Boing Boing.

Violet Jessop was born in Argentina in 1887, the eldest of nine children. She survived tuberculosis as a child, contrary to doctors' predictions. At 21, she became a stewardess for Royal Mail Line. Then she boarded three White Star ships, and all three met with disaster. - Read the rest The post Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and a collision on the Olympic appeared first on Boing Boing.

In a great interview on Frank Santopadre's podcast, "Fun for All Ages" promoting his book Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other - And the World, author Jim Windolf describes how in 1966, Bob Dylan stole/parodied the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood," and then filmed himself provoking John Lennon about it (while very high on something). - Read the rest The post Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood" appeared first on Boing Boing.

After weeks of regaling us with his knowledge of great pool guys and shades of blue, The Orange Menace's taxpayer-funded vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is complete. By complete, we mean completely filled with algae.The most likely thing to have actually happened here is that some friend or donor got paid off by this personal pool guy of the United States zero-bid contractor receiving the job. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains algae-filled improvements appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Playdate is a one-of-a-kind game console with a 2.7 inch screen, not a device on which one might expect to play an MMO.It has everything you would expect in a TMORPG (tiny multiplayer online RPG): quests, NPCs, combat, and loot - also, chickens, cats, and dogs. - Read the rest The post PointlessQuest puts a full MMO on Playdate's 2.7-inch screen appeared first on Boing Boing.

The public's desire for a handbag made of leather created in a lab using cells from a T. Rex was vastly overestimated by the auction house tasked with its sale.The bag - a blue-black clutch - differs substantially from the image in the promotional photos released when the project was first announced. - Read the rest The post T-Rex leather handbag failed to sell at auction for $500k appeared first on Boing Boing.

Kristi Noem was asked on Newsmax who America's best friend is in South America and answered with El Salvador and Costa Rica, which is a problem because maps exist.Noem did not merely miss a trivia question at a bar. She is a former Homeland Security secretary and Trump's special envoy for "Shield of the Americas," a title that sounds like it should come with at least one laminated map. - Read the rest The post Kristi Noem begs Yakko Warner to explain South America appeared first on Boing Boing.

Quantum suicide is a thought experiment that takes Schrodinger's cat and puts you inside the box. The setup: a device kills you based on a quantum measurement with a 50/50 chance. Under the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, every possible outcome actually happens - so there's always a branch where you survive. - Read the rest The post The thought experiment that says you can't die (from your own perspective) appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've used Roku since 2014, when a friend explained why this weird little purple box was the best way to escape cable. He was right. Now Fox is buying it.Roku works because it is boring in the best possible way. - Read the rest The post Fox buys the henhouse appeared first on Boing Boing.

On October 3, 1955, the motor vessel Joyita left Apia, Western Samoa, bound for the Tokelau Islands with 25 people aboard - 16 crew and 9 passengers, including a government medical officer carrying a supply of surgical instruments and drugs. The 69-foot wooden ship never arrived. - Read the rest The post A ship found drifting in the Pacific was still afloat but all 25 passengers had vanished appeared first on Boing Boing.

On August 16, 1942, the Navy blimp L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a routine antisubmarine patrol with Lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody, 27, and Ensign Charles Adams, 35 - Adams's first flight as a commissioned officer. At 7:38 a.m., - Read the rest The post A Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1832, a 14-year-old crew member named Otokichi left Japan on a rice transport ship bound for Edo. A storm blew the vessel off course, and it drifted across the northern Pacific for 14 months without a mast or rudder. The crew survived on desalinated seawater and their rice cargo. - Read the rest The post A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Lost Cosmonauts theory alleges that the Soviet Union launched humans into space before Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight - and that the cosmonauts onboard died. The strongest piece of supposed evidence came from Italian brothers Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia, amateur radio operators in Turin who claimed to have intercepted transmissions from doomed Soviet spacecraft between 1960 and 1964. - Read the rest The post Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history appeared first on Boing Boing.